The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-12
The "New sississippian" Sums Up.

Without adducing the terIi0ls
evidence of the State, we get
the following facts satuslly from
tue sworn testimony of the
accut ed at the coroneps jury, t1e
most important admissions being
wrung from them after long question
iug For several days prior to the
killing a watch had been kept up by
Eubsnk and others upon the move
ments Of Mr.. Gambrell and his father,
and reports thereof were made to COL
Hamilton. Thus, according to Ed
banks testimony,he reported to Ham
ilton the leaving of Mr.. Gambrell's
father upon Thursday night; thus he
reported to him that "that follow"
(by which term he says they were &C,
Customed to refer TO Roderick Gam
brell when speaking of his
movements) bad gone west
Thur day morning about IL
or IL o'clock-that on that night
Hamilton sent for him TO 90 to the
Vicksburg and Meridian train coming
from the west, that having gone to
West Jackson about $3.50 o'clock. He
and Hamilton were there talking and
drinking with the other parties &C.
cused until they heard the whis-
tie OF the train upon which it lie
proven that Mr.. Gambre)l arrived
from Canton). That he and Hamil-
ton went to the depot, Hamilton 60
ing close up to the train and not
meeting and speaking to any Of the
arriving passengers. That ne and
Hamilton, and Hardy, the driver, i'm
mediately came on in the carriage to
the bridge, about quarter of mile,
where the tragedy occurred. 1t Is
also shown from the testimony Of the
different parties accu'ed that after
they had all been convsising together
for some time that night ttey sepa-
rated, some Of them going to the
train and wstching-that after the ar
rival of train somehow they all i'm
mediately went to the bridge-some
in the carriage on foot-that
they all happened to arrive at the
bridge at the right moment for some
to be just in front, and others behind
and at his side, when Roderick Gam
bre set foot upon the bridge, and yet
they claim that the o1med boy, there
all alone and surrounded by bis de-
clared enemies, attempted, without
provocation, to kill Jones Hamilton
ali engirdled by his friends and en-
ployes.: These men all lived in diff
ferent portions OF the city, and not
one has given q reasonable reason for
having been there at that time-Gam-
brell alone OF them all being on his
way home from legitimate business.
And all this-this watching the boy
and bis parents by the accused their
talking together and separating and
meeting by different ways at the
critical moment, when the boy who
had iearlessly exposed them reached
the loneiest spot on his homeward
wsy-tRe fact tia. he had no injury TO
avenge and was utterly alone--that
one Of the wounds in the dead boys
body entered him from the right, an
other from the left, and the other
straight from his front-that the whole
statement of these men thss there was
q carriage there at the time Of the
shooting ia utterly demolished and
swept away by overwhelming test.
mony. After the first shot there came
a piercing cry OF murder not uttered
by any OF the secused-the fact that
the most intelligent witness and one
with most unimpeachable verseity,
with others, saw the flashes OF
three different pistols Convsrg-